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Shutdown screen & virtual terminals show choppy bad video #26

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.Shutting down
2.Switching to virtual terminal
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Should be normal shutdown screen or normal video when switching to virtual 
terminal , instead in both cases its very bad , choppy video displayed.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
VPCF111FD i7 core , Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04

Please provide any additional information below.
Boot up is fine. Everything is working great , but when I go to shutdown or use 
ctrl-alt-fkey virtual terminal the video graphics get really bad. Logging out 
is fine and fn LCD button works.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by wassons....@gmail.com on 6 Jul 2010 at 1:57

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Here's what I did to get to the point i'm at.

http://idyllictux.wordpress.com/2010/04/26/lucidubuntu-10-04-high-resolution-ply
mouth-virtual-terminal-for-atinvidia-cards-with-proprietaryrestricted-driver/

Original comment by wassons....@gmail.com on 6 Jul 2010 at 2:00

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
I can confirm that this issue exists on a vaio VPCF11M1E.

Original comment by erik.van...@gmail.com on 8 Aug 2010 at 10:13

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
After using uvesafb I have the same problem on VPCF12M1E.

Original comment by serban.ionica@gmail.com on 6 Sep 2010 at 12:05

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
I can also confirm this problem on a Sony Vaio VPCF11M1E/H running Arch Linux, 
kernel 2.6.35.

Original comment by ramiro.m...@gmail.com on 11 Oct 2010 at 11:26

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Yes, the same problem.
Ubuntu 10.10, NVidia 256 drivers, uvesafb framebuffer.

Original comment by shand...@gmail.com on 13 Oct 2010 at 7:57

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
This are really screwed up for Sony Vaio VPCF111FD under Ubuntu 10.10. It was 
hard enough to get things going under Lucid , but I have been extremely 
frustrated with 10.10. Especially with Nvidia video driver ... I just can't get 
it working , no matter what I do. Does anyone have a good link for installing 
Nvidia driver under 10.10 ? 

I can't believe how hard it is to get this Vaio running properly under Linux !

Any help appreciated.

Original comment by wassons....@gmail.com on 14 Oct 2010 at 5:20

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
I can confirm this problem with Ubuntu 10.04, but what is very strange with 
Arch Linux Uvesafb is working great :)

@wassons.dream I'm very dissapointed that I bought F11M1E, this is anti-linux 
book :(
Temporary solution to get working nvidia under Ubuntu 10.10 is install old 
stable drivers 256.53 ;)

Original comment by xjc...@gmail.com on 14 Oct 2010 at 7:46

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
@xjcook Do your virtual terminals look right on arch?  I am running ubuntu 
10.10 right now, but have been thinking about trying arch.  The other day I 
swapped hard drives and installed arch, but didn't have enough time to get 
everything working the way I like it so I swapped back.  I may try to finish my 
arch setup this weekend.

Original comment by britr...@gmail.com on 14 Oct 2010 at 8:16

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
@britrock yes it looks right with 1280x800 resolution (higher is not supported 
with VBIOS)...one thing which is not working in arch by default is suspend, you 
need add acpi_sleep=non_vs and resume device to grub ;-)

Original comment by xjc...@gmail.com on 14 Oct 2010 at 9:59

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
@xjcook I had to add acpi_sleep=non_vs in ubuntu 10.10 as well.  I'll try arch 
again this weekend.  Wish me luck.

Original comment by britr...@gmail.com on 14 Oct 2010 at 11:09

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
@wassons.dream:
To get the nvidia driver working, you have to download the installer from 
nvidia in a specific version (256.53):
http://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/linux-display-amd64-256.53-driver-uk.html

Then uninstall the xorg nouveau driver with apt-get.

Then make a file in /etc/modprobe.d called nouveau-kms.conf with contents:

blacklist nouveau
option nouveau modeset=0

when you install the nvidia driver, make sure to let it run nvidia-xconfig. 
This will create an xorg.conf that works.

You no longer need to put the customEDID fix in your xorg.conf, the 256.53 
driver finds the EDID on its own.

Keep in mind that you will have to reinstall the video driver after every 
kernel update until a working driver is in the ubuntu package management.

Original comment by erik.van...@gmail.com on 15 Oct 2010 at 7:00

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Hi Erik,

thanks for these hints. To make things easier, the 256.52 driver IS already 
available as an ubuntu package -- see here:

http://code.google.com/p/vaio-f11-linux/issues/detail?id=33#c4

Don't know if it is significantly behind the 256.53 version, though. For me it 
works quite well (relatively ...).

Original comment by dr.peter...@gmail.com on 15 Oct 2010 at 7:43

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Yes, that is easier :) I should have read more.

I suppose you could add these repositories and set the /etc/apt/preferences 
file while on the nouveau driver and then just use the hardware drivers 
application to switch to nvidia-current.

I will try that when I get home.

Original comment by erik.van...@gmail.com on 15 Oct 2010 at 7:54

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
After 10 years or more on Linux it's almost laughable how comically hard it is 
to get this Vaio running good ... specifically under Ubuntu , but I suspect it 
would be hard under any linux O.S. It's not just the Nvidia card as most of you 
know , its the HDMI , brightness , fn-keys , microphone etc , etc. A real test 
of the patience , in fact i'm writing this from windows because my 10.10 linux 
side is not working after a bunch of messing around again.

Thanks for the links to Nvidia 10.10 help. really appreciated. Rebooting to usb 
install , one more time , and try some of the helpful advice given.

Cheers to this "site" , clearly the best help online for a Sony Vaio owner that 
wants to use linux.

Original comment by wassons....@gmail.com on 16 Oct 2010 at 6:20

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Okay so all is well. Sorry about my outburst there. I followed the excellent 
advice above and Nvidia driver installed fine and it's enabled.

Still black screen when I use fn-fkey to go to virtual terminal , shutdown is 
fine.

Original comment by wassons....@gmail.com on 17 Oct 2010 at 3:22

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Original comment by Jason.Donenfeld on 9 Nov 2010 at 5:46

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
After all this time is there a fix for the choppy tty? I've tried NVidia 256, 
275, 290, and others with uvesafb but I still get choppy text in virtual 
terminals.

Original comment by ser...@seneka.ro on 28 Jan 2012 at 9:50

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
NVidia 295.20, Ubuntu 11.10, still (after 2 years since laptop purchase!) the 
same problem: choppy video in virtual terminal. I wonder why the issue has been 
marked as invalid!

Original comment by shand...@gmail.com on 24 Feb 2012 at 6:04